EPA Resists Environmentalists’ Calls For AFO Air Reporting Deadline

EPA and farm sector groups are fighting environmentalists’ calls for a federal court to set a binding deadline for the agency to issue a rule requiring animal feeding operations (AFOs) to report their air pollution emissions under community right-to-know law, after the groups accused EPA of abandoning its rulemaking efforts. In a Jan. 30 filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia suit Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help, et al. v. EPA , the agency says...